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Thread #79005 Message #1430917
Posted By: Tannywheeler
09-Mar-05 - 04:45 PM
Thread Name: Seeger/Outlandish Knight version?
Subject: RE: Seeger/Outlandish Knight version?
The Pete Seeger album with "False Knight Upon the Road" was recorded live at The Bitter End. Odd song: the girl saves herself by cleverness, but when she gets home her parrot questions her going off with the guy but coming back without him. She admits:
..."Young Henry(?) lies under the sea",
and then she has to bribe the bird to keep quiet:
"Don't prittle, don't prattle, my pretty, pretty Polly--
Don't tell no tales on me --
And you shall have a cage of the purest, beaten gold
And be hung on an ivory tree."
I guess self-defense was not an option for women in whatever day and age that was. Tw